Re: [Freeipmi-users] in-band failure on Suns

[Al Chu]

Hey Dave,

I think I may have fixed a problem that may be the problem for atleast
one of the problems you listed below. Could you check out this tar.gz
and let me know that it works?

http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.10.beta0.tar.gz

The appropriate changelog entry.

2009-05-19  Albert Chu <address@hidden>

        * common/src/toolcommon/tool-common.c: Attempt OpenIPMI and SunBMC
        drivers first, since they cannot be discovered via probing, and to
        avoid accidently using the KCS driver first.

Thanks,
Al

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:22 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:12 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> > I normally only do things out-of-band with freeipmi, but I've found that
> > it doesn't work in-band on three different sorts of Sun (with which
> > ipmitool is happy).  At least one case looks like a bug, but I'm
> > wondering whether there's something I can do to make it work and what
> > debugging information might be useful.
> 
> I'd love to get to the bottom of this and get it supported.  Is there
> any chance you could compile the tar.gz off the website?
> Run ./configure with the "--enable-debug" and "--enable-trace" options.
> These will get us a ton more debug information.
> 
> In the meantime, I do have a sunbox, and the ipmi kernel driver does not
> seem to work on that box, but I'm not sure if it is FreeIPMI or the
> motherboard.  It seems the motherboard just doesn't like the kernel
> driver for some reason.
> 
> > 
> > These systems are running opensuse 10.3 (a 2.6.22.19-based kernel).  The
> > ipmi_msghandler, ipmi_devintf, and ipmi_si modules are loaded in all
> > cases.  I also tried unsuccessfully with the relevant i2c modules for
> > SSIF.
> > 
> > bmc-info (without options) produces these errors:
> > 
> > x2200M2 (ELOM):
> >  ipmi_cmd_get_device_id: driver timeout
> > x4100 (ILOM 2):
> >  ipmi_cmd_get_device_id: internal system error
> > x4200M2 (ILOM 2):
> >  could not find inband device
> 
> is there a /dev/ipmi* on your machine?
> 
> Al
> 
> > It works OK on our Supermicros (where the driver has to be loaded with
> > "options ipmi_si type=kcs ports=0xca8 regspacings=4", in case that's
> > relevant).
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory